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White House “unsure” if Chicago torture is a hate crime

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First, the video (with some commentary from a site). I selected this version for display because faces have not been removed, nor have the words spoken been censored. You need to see this and you need to hear this.

For those who may be unaware of the story, please read this from Fox32Chicago.com:

4 in custody after mentally disabled man tied up, tortured on Facebook Live

by Lisa Chavarria

FOX 32 NEWS – Chicago investigators are questioning four African-Americans after a Facebook Live video shows a group of people torturing a white mentally disabled man while someone yelled “F*** Trump!” and “F*** white people!”

UPDATE: 4 charged in beating of special needs man on Facebook Live

Chicago police were made aware of the video Tuesday afternoon. A young African American woman streamed the video live on Facebook showing at least four people holding the young white man hostage.

Throughout the video, the victim is repeatedly kicked and hit, his scalp is cut, all while he is tied up with his mouth taped shut.

At one point, the victim is held at knife point and told to curse President-elect Donald Trump. The group also forces the victim to drink water from a toilet.

The suspects can be heard saying they want the video to go viral.

Oh, it went viral, all right. Let’s add, from the UKDailyMail.com:

Black teens are charged with a HATE CRIME after live-streaming torture of white disabled man who they held prisoner for days before he escaped – as cops reveal they have shown NO remorse

by Ashley Collman and Emily Crane

  • The four people believed to be behind the attack on a young special needs man in Chicago on Tuesday have been identified and charged 
  • The suspected attackers are Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper, 18; and sisters Brittany, 18, and Tanisha Covington, 24
  • The foursome face charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint, aggravated battery and a hate crime 
  • Hill, who was acquainted with the victim, faces an additional charge of robbery and possession of a stolen vehicle
  • Hill, Cooper and Brittany Covington also face charges of residential burglary 
  • The four were arrested on Wednesday in connection to a video that was live-streamed on Facebook, showing four people torturing a special needs man 
  • The traumatized victim in the incident was found wandering a Chicago street after escaping on Wednesday 
  • The  victim – who has not been identified – has been returned to his family 

The four black friends believed to be behind the disturbing torture of a white special needs man in a Facebook live video have been identified and charged with committing a hate crime. 

Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper, 18; and sisters Birttany, 18, and Tanisha Covington, 24, were charged Thursday morning with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint, aggravated battery and a hate crime, according to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. Hill was also charged with robbery and possession of a stolen motor vehicle. He, Cooper and Brittany Covington face additional charges of residential burglary.

Half an hour of this torture was live-streamed on Facebook, showing the group beating the young man, cutting off a piece of his scalp, forcing him to drink toilet water. At one point in the video, one of the four yells  ‘f*** Donald Trump. F*** white people’ at the victim.

I suspect by now you’ve a rather good grasp of the overall situation, what occurred, and the players involved. I believe you’re beginning to draw some conclusions; one of them may be “we’re dealing with a hate crime.”

Because the incident made national news on Wednesday the 4th, you can be sure that Mr Obama, Loretta Lynch, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU immediately demanded, the same day, that hate crime charges be applied to the black suspects.

No.

In fact, the White House said it’s “too early to tell” if the torture of a mentally-challenged white male whose semi-scalping by four black suspects — to the point where you can see the white of his skull in the video — rises to the threshold of a hate crime. Watch:

Of course. Nothing like a little live torture on the internet to convince people that no hate crime was involved whatsoever.

In fact, if we really think about it, Donald Trump, his minions and Caucasoids are responsible for this act which, if you’re honest with yourself, was committed by errant kids who simply made a mistake.

Brittany Covington clasping a semi-automatic pistol. But wait; I thought there were gun laws in Chicago. Harsh gun laws. Onerous gun laws. Right?

The impartial Don Lemon hosts one guest — Symone Sanders, a black female — who knows the suspects did not commit a hate crime.

Please note the equivocation of Sanders, who seems to be more offended that the suspects were sufficiently daft to broadcast the event live on social media. “We cannot callously go about classifying things as a hate crime.” Of course. She names “their disability” as one factor of a hate crime. Symone, did you even hear what you said? And did you listen to or watch the video? It would seem to me that, yes, I did hear the words “fuck white people.” After years in radio, wearing headphones, attending loud concerts, being Rangemaster of a 2,000+ officer department and having tinnitus, yes, my hearing isn’t what it used to be. But it’s not that bad.

Sanders has previously mocked a victim of mob violence who was beaten after the presidential election while the attackers shouted, “You voted for Trump.” She has also suggested that the election of Trump has “put white supremacy into the White House.”

“And I don’t mean to have favorites here, but at the end of the day – white people always tend to overreact and over-blame people for any type of incidents they get involved in,” Sanders added.

Later, Don Lemon himself said he didn’t think the suspects were evil but, instead, chalked it up to “bad home training.” Please watch the video.

Chicago Police Commander Kevin Duffin stated “They’re young adults and they make stupid decisions.”

Right. This is just a silly, forgettable mistake by misguided Chicago young adults. Who are all 18 and chargeable as adults.

My final thought is this. I always like to do what I call the “Reversal Theory.” What if four Caucasoid 18-year-olds, two male and two female, had taken a mentally-challenged young black male and done the precise same things, and had also said “fuck Barack Obama” and “fuck niggers”?

I wonder if all the persons I mentioned above would have been commenting within the very hour of the release of the story, calling for hate crime prosecution and more? Civil unrest? Riots?

I think you know the answer.

BZ

 

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